It’s pretty swampy down here on the Bayou. Humid and 85. I may post about this tomorrow, but I’m at LUMCON, the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, a science research center built on 20′ steel stilts (the pilings go 180′ into the marsh) about 1/2 mile from the always-shifting coastline of southern LA. An interesting place…
I think we’ve been very productive in your absence, Steve! I’ve really enjoyed our online work this week. I feel like I’m catching up with or getting to know everyone’s projects.
I do have a question about our reading for next week — maybe I was too late to pick up the stories and all the copies were gone? Did everyone already pick these up? I went this morning and I couldn’t find them.
Yes, I agree with Tara about us being productive this week. It seems as if we are getting more done in your absence on the online meeting than our in-class meetings. The online posts have really got me focused on my project.
I am very fascinated by the range of projects there are in this class, from teaching The Tempest to performance theory.
I look forward to the pictures that you post on the Grand Isle. I also wish that I was down in Louisiana where with much better weather.
What exactly is your visit to LUMCON about? LUMCON sounds very exciting! Is there a conference there? Are you presenting a paper there or doing research? That would be quite a fascinating interdisciplinary combination, Shakespeare with maritime studies, if you were presenting a paper there. Can you please tell us all about your visit there and all the topics that were presented if there was a conference?
It is a great idea to have this maritime research center right where the land is dissolving into the sea. It kind of reminds me of the production of Othello by Shakespeare on the Sound, which took place by the sound where I perceived that a lot of the production was intertwined by the setting.
It is interesting that the English literature scholar also does scientific research. I, for one, do not have a forte for science so that would be a tough part for me if I end up researching anything that links with science.
The picture reminded me the one I took myself this summer. My husband and I went to Hawaii; and when we were in Maui, we drove all the way up Haleakala (10 000 feet elevation.) The navigation map showed us exactly the same picture, although instead of the sea there was… nothing, absolutely nothing. It did look like the end of the world, indeed!
Here is the picture: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs315.snc4/41064_468044885604_510235604_6961665_1768257_n.jpg
The sea as a vision of emptiness is a long tradition of land-locked cartography, though of course we maritimers don’t much believe in it. LUMCON is a scientific research consortium, & I was there as a guest speaker for the Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies Program, based in Mystic Seaport. I gave a couple of short talks on maritime literature, but really I wanted to go down to see the dissolution, and also the impact of the BP spill on Grand Isle. I’ll have more to say about it tomorrow.
Here’s where I am this week: Cocodrie, LA. Down here at the end of the road where the land is dissolving into the sea…
I bet the weather is a lot nicer down there. I’m not afraid to admit it… I’m jealous! Hope you’re enjoying your time down south.
It’s pretty swampy down here on the Bayou. Humid and 85. I may post about this tomorrow, but I’m at LUMCON, the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, a science research center built on 20′ steel stilts (the pilings go 180′ into the marsh) about 1/2 mile from the always-shifting coastline of southern LA. An interesting place…
I think we’ve been very productive in your absence, Steve! I’ve really enjoyed our online work this week. I feel like I’m catching up with or getting to know everyone’s projects.
I do have a question about our reading for next week — maybe I was too late to pick up the stories and all the copies were gone? Did everyone already pick these up? I went this morning and I couldn’t find them.
Yes, I agree with Tara about us being productive this week. It seems as if we are getting more done in your absence on the online meeting than our in-class meetings. The online posts have really got me focused on my project.
I am very fascinated by the range of projects there are in this class, from teaching The Tempest to performance theory.
I look forward to the pictures that you post on the Grand Isle. I also wish that I was down in Louisiana where with much better weather.
What exactly is your visit to LUMCON about? LUMCON sounds very exciting! Is there a conference there? Are you presenting a paper there or doing research? That would be quite a fascinating interdisciplinary combination, Shakespeare with maritime studies, if you were presenting a paper there. Can you please tell us all about your visit there and all the topics that were presented if there was a conference?
It is a great idea to have this maritime research center right where the land is dissolving into the sea. It kind of reminds me of the production of Othello by Shakespeare on the Sound, which took place by the sound where I perceived that a lot of the production was intertwined by the setting.
It is interesting that the English literature scholar also does scientific research. I, for one, do not have a forte for science so that would be a tough part for me if I end up researching anything that links with science.
The picture reminded me the one I took myself this summer. My husband and I went to Hawaii; and when we were in Maui, we drove all the way up Haleakala (10 000 feet elevation.) The navigation map showed us exactly the same picture, although instead of the sea there was… nothing, absolutely nothing. It did look like the end of the world, indeed!
Here is the picture: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs315.snc4/41064_468044885604_510235604_6961665_1768257_n.jpg
The sea as a vision of emptiness is a long tradition of land-locked cartography, though of course we maritimers don’t much believe in it. LUMCON is a scientific research consortium, & I was there as a guest speaker for the Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies Program, based in Mystic Seaport. I gave a couple of short talks on maritime literature, but really I wanted to go down to see the dissolution, and also the impact of the BP spill on Grand Isle. I’ll have more to say about it tomorrow.